Routine

We've fallen into a work routine here, which is great! Mornings we go to the preschool run by Pastor Noel's wife (the Filipino missionary couple that we're working with) for three hours, where most of the girls help with teaching, and a few of us help with some work projects around the school. I'm in the process of getting a website up and running for Noel and Fe's ministry, Light of the Nations.

Today we went to a drug rehabilitation program run by the government, where Noel runs a program every Thursday and Friday morning. We'll be assisting him there -- today was a lot of cleaning in preparation for their 3-year anniversary celebration tomorrow. We pulled out a large desk to clean behind it, and discovered a gecko that was over a foot long, and about 7 of its eggs!

In the afternoon, a few girls help out with the afternoon session and the preschool. At 4:00, most of us head to a village where we help out with a program for kids. This involves playing games, singing songs, and teaching an English lesson to some of the older kids. We've been able to help Noel greatly by dividing up the children by age group for more effective learning for those who come for the English lesson.

In other news, we saw the King today! The road we take every day was closed off by police, so we were riding in tuk tuks down the little road parallel, when we go to the point where we needed to cross. The police said we had to wait a minute, as the King had arrived at the Siem Reap airport and would be coming down the road. We sat there a minute until his entourage of cars passed, and he looked out the window and waved right at us as he drove by! I'd know his face anywhere, since his picture is posted at big roundabouts and in many restaurants, schools, and businesses in Cambodia.

That's all for now, but everything is going well!